We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on the
barometer, to be prepared for the least change. There was not the slightest
change recorded by the instrument, during the whole time. Words cannot
describe the comfort that that friendly, hopeful, steadfast thing was to me
in that season of trouble. It was a defective barometer, and had no hand but
the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward. If I
should be in such a situation again, I should not wish for any barometer but
that one.

You like delusional weather?

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"katysails" wrote
You like delusional weather?

Sure - that's why we watch the weather channel.

your barometer should run for president.
Scout

"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
ink.net...
We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on
the
barometer, to be prepared for the least change. There was not the
slightest
change recorded by the instrument, during the whole time. Words cannot
describe the comfort that that friendly, hopeful, steadfast thing was to
me
in that season of trouble. It was a defective barometer, and had no hand
but
the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward. If
I
should be in such a situation again, I should not wish for any barometer
but
that one.

Bob Crantz wrote:

We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on the
barometer, to be prepared for the least change. There was not the slightest
change recorded by the instrument, during the whole time. Words cannot
describe the comfort that that friendly, hopeful, steadfast thing was to me
in that season of trouble. It was a defective barometer, and had no hand but
the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward. If I
should be in such a situation again, I should not wish for any barometer but
that one.

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broad, an other.

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Well, you got some bites but were they worth it? A tramp, a
broad, an other.

Flying Tadpole

So which one am I??? And you'd better be VERY careful how you answer....
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katysails wrote:

Well, you got some bites but were they worth it? A tramp, a
broad, an other.

Flying Tadpole

So which one am I??? And you'd better be VERY careful how you answer....
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In this case, Katy dear, you're a literary illusion. Try a
google on "a tramp, a broad".
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A Tramp Abroad...one that I haven't read....If he's going to quote, he
should use quotes and give credit....I thought he was a lawyer? Shouldn't
he be above plagiarism? (snort)

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katysails wrote:

A Tramp Abroad...one that I haven't read....If he's going to quote, he
should use quotes and give credit....I thought he was a lawyer? Shouldn't
he be above plagiarism? (snort)

Ah, but you see, he thought his audience was erudite enough to
automatically recognise the style, if not the immediate source,
and he was right, wasn't he? (primp, preen)
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Shouldn't he be above plagiarism? (snort)


".....substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously
drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a
pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them;
whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the
little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his
temperament, which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. . . . It
takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a
phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone, or any other Important thing--
and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his
little mite--that is all he did.
In 1886 I read Dr. Holmes's poems, in the Sandwich Islands. A year and a
half later I stole his dedication, without knowing it, and used it to
dedicate my "Innocents Abroad" with. Ten years afterward I was talking with
Dr. Holmes about it. He was not an ignorant ass--no, not he; . . . and so
when I said, "I know now where I stole, but who did you steal it from?" he
said, "I don't remember; I only know I stole it from somebody, because I
have never originated anything altogether myself, nor met anybody who had."

Mark Twain in a letter to Letter to Anne Macy. Reprinted in Anne Sullivan
Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran,
and Co., 1933), p.162.


Satisfied now?

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